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Guild Wars 2's fourth and final developer video on the Stronghold of the Faithful features ArenaNet Game Designer Jason Reynolds discussing the design of the boss fight with the Keep Construct. His favorite moment in the fight comes during the phase when players are debuffed with a nasty friendly-fire spell that's going to remind old-school WoW players of the...

Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan took to the forums yesterday to share some of the plans for the game's continued development. Primarily on the table, of course, is the competitive play mode. Kaplan said that Blizzard is hoping to get the feature on test servers prior to release, and even when it comes out, it probably will change over the...

Sometimes there just aren't enough pride parades in your area. Sometimes you don't feel safe being out in your local community. Heck, maybe you just don't like having to stand outside and march. Whatever reasons you might have, you can still take part in Guild Wars 2's community-organized Pride March for all people in the LGBTQIA+ community. People of...

As with mainstream movies, it seems that the MMORPG industry has settled comfortably into the PG-13 zone for its approach and themes. Sure, there's a bit of blood, skin, and the occasional foray into adult themes, but for the most part these games are playing it safe by not pushing too many boundaries. After all, why limit the potential...

Grim survival sandbox Lifeless officially launches into early access today. The game is published by Green Man Gaming, the same group behind survivalbox The Black Death, also in early access right now. But where The Black Death focuses on a medieval world besieged by plague, Lifeless is a modern setting overrun by zombies. Swedish studio Rigid-Soft apparently switched to Unreal...

One thing that I see over and over in our comments sections when we cover Perfect World's MMOs is hatred for lockboxes and keys bought via legit RMT, so you'd better believe that's something I asked about at this year's E3 2016 while I was checking out the studio's lineup of Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Livelock. Cryptic's Executive Producer, Rob Overmeyer, stressed that players are never...

Post-apoc sci-fi MMORPG Trinium Wars leaves behind early access and formally launches into the wilds of Steam today. The base game went free-to-play back in May; the deluxe and collector's editions are marked down 40% for the launch. "The commercial launch also marks the official opening of the Resource War mode which will pit players with level 30 in a continuous...

There were big announcements for The Elder Scrolls Online at this year's E3, including the new universal level scaling system of One Tamriel. But reading about it just isn't the same as actually watching the announcement. So now you can watch the announcement in all its glory with a video recap of the TESO presentation right from the show...

The Korean version of Black Desert Online is going to issue a wake-up call to Ninjas very soon. It's the next class to get an Awakening, and the trailer shows off the Awakened weapon in all of its multi-bladed detail. Why pick just one sword when you can have six different swords to use for a variety of attacks?...

One of TERA's tentpole features is its crazy insane fights against plus-sized mobs, which it calls "big-ass monsters" (BAMs). Well if you think you've seen it all when it comes to BAMs in this game, then hang on: TERA is preparing super-BAM raids that will pit 30 players against creatures "10 times larger" than previous monsters. This news comes courtesy...